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The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast networkTue, 31 Mar 2015 22:26:02 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3By: Quartermasterhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/07/quotes-of-the-day-1252/comment-page-5/#comment-6626000
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:08:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=237818#comment-6626000Begala, alas, is a liar. The proper term is Gun Control. Gun Safety is something that is not taught by government or through law, but in a classsroom over which an experienced instructor presides. If So called Conservative Republicans are leaving a hunting camp respecting Begala, they are not conservatives.
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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:43:10 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=237818#comment-6625073

Which is why President Obama was wise to charge Vice President Joe Biden with looking at the entire toxic, tragic stew that allows mass killings to occur—not just guns, but also the inadequacies of our mental-health system and the celebration of killing in our culture.

Well, I’ll have to admit that putting Joe Biden in charge of complex and sensitive issues is typical of Obama’s wisdom.

Why would you? They don’t want you to exist. :) You don’t reinforce any of their chosen types.

I don’t know. Maybe that’s too cynical.

Anyway, good job. Keep up the fight!

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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:58 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=237818#comment-6625009I often find myself in the same situation as Paul Begala, but in reverse. I’m active in several conservation organizations that are heavily dominated by liberals (a/k/a progressives, a/k/a statists) and sometimes feel like the proverbial fish out of water given my conservative political views. I just sent a letter to the president of the National Audubon Society in response to his monthly column about global warming trying to explain my skepticism, and that I’m not funded by oil companies, not contrarian just for the heck of it, and not some “abolish all government” member of the lunatic fringe. Wonder if I’ll get a reply?
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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:09:04 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=237818#comment-6624987

MarkT on January 8, 2013 at 10:30 AM

Say what you will about Jones’s emotionalism but if our representatives showed half as much passion about ANYTHING we care about, the Left might think twice about taking guns or any other violations of the Constitution.

Personally, I’ll take a dozen Alex Joneses over the feckless crowd we have in there now.

I enjoy it too. I have got to know so many posters from the qotd,over the years.
It has always been that way. Since
I can remember. O/T Off/T- poster’s sharing links,
-anything goes time.
Without it…qotd has low comment count.
The chitter’s give it the # of comments it even gets.
It is usually a rehash of a topic that has been beaten
like a dead horse all day..for several days.
When a explosive topic is qotd-not so much chatter.
Like..when Amnesty raises it’s head soon..
it will be On/T and a large comment count-for example.

Seems some of the morning shift take up where we left off. Difference is you have new threads opening all day, whereas QOTD is the last one. People generally aren’t bouncing from thread to thread. Naturally, it makes it easy to start and maintain conversations, AKA chit chat. I think it is a good thing.

Serious side, he laid down a template how to deal with the Left Stream Media by using their own tools against them- demanding to be heard, refusing to let another speak, speaking over the other at every opportunity, answering questions with questions.

]]>By: 22044http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/07/quotes-of-the-day-1252/comment-page-4/#comment-6624884
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:25:55 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=237818#comment-6624884I would like to have a QOTM thread (Quotes of the Morning) – but I have a hunch the management wouldn’t go for that.
]]>By: bazil9http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/07/quotes-of-the-day-1252/comment-page-4/#comment-6624883
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:24:40 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=237818#comment-6624883Been here 4 years or so-
qotd always had chit chat.
diff handles now but the chitter continues.
A HA tradition.

per usual, bluegillz whines about something.
Oh NO, it has a work break and has nothing to read
but chatter boxers late at night at HA.

Well, yeah, and it’s not as if Begala couldn’t use some trivializing nor as if we don’t have more important things to be concerned about than the QOTD thread, but sometimes the subject matter is significant and could use some serious reflection.

Cleombrotus on January 8, 2013 at 8:52 AM

Agreed. I do think that when the topic is one that captures the attention of enough people the comments are more substantive. There is no denying though, that sometimes going goofy is the only thing to be done.